Sunday, December 16, 2007

The Monday Quiz VII -- a Beethoven-Free Post

The Monday Quiz VII

Movie Images

All five questions are the same this week: What movie is this image from? Witty remarks or in-jokes demonstrating your familiarity and appreciation of the movies in question will not help your case. They are nevertheless encouraged.

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5. Note: If more than three people are able to identify all five films, exclamation points will be issued only to those who give the full, complete name of this last one.

Submit your answers in the comments.

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5. "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" wherein Peter Sellers plays an incredible 8 different roles; this feat was only outdone by his own effort in Ben-Hur, where he played all 112,00 extras.

1. The Graduate -- Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson2. ? -- hey, isn't that what's his name?3. 12 Angry Men--(Maybe Henry Fonda would do jury duty for me? You know, if he were still alive.)4. ? very Hitchcock5. ? "Look, we're all about to die. Man, and I didn't even get a donut."

5. Dr. Strangelove - How I learned to love the bomb. (looking at your other responders after having written my answers, I believe that I may have missed a piece of the full title. But Rear Window might be wrong, so I may be screwed anyways).

1. The Graduate2. Reservoir Dogs3. Let's see, how many men are there? Over 9? And they look sorta unhappy... I'm going to go with 12 Angry Men (unless there's a movie about cranky railway conductors doing bald-man marketing research on cigarettes and ties).4. I so want this to be Clue, but I know better... what I don't know is the title of this movie. Hitchcock? Vertigo?5. Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

I've now exhausted all of my cinema knowledge, which admittedly isn't much.P.S. I think your quiz book idea is fab.

I seem to lack wit just now, despite my last name. (The previous sentence certainly demonstrates a lack of wit.)

1. The Graduate. 2. Reservoir Dogs. 3. Casablanca (?) 4. Dial M for Murder -- this is probably wrong since I am about 90% sure Diam M for Murder was in black & white. 5. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb

And the winners of the MQVII Exclaimation Point are Phineas, who collects his first MQ prize; Chance, who claims his second; and Rex Parker, the first person to bring home a third exclamation point. Congrats all around.

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